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Null-Terminated Strings

Null-Terminated Strings

Posted Nov 25, 2010 16:22 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Null-Terminated Strings by renox
Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs

No, you haven't... (Original) Pascal "strings" were just (packed) arrays of characters of a fixed length.

/me ducks and runs for cover


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